Mild agnosticism —the view that the existence or nonexistence of God or gods is currently unknown but is not necessarily unknowable, therefore one will withhold judgment until/if more evidence is available. A weak agnostic would say "I don't know, but maybe you do."

The entire NV3x line is based on a quad-pipeline which draw a 2x2 pixel tile. The number of processing units units inside the quad pipeline is different from card to card, but none of the NV3x GPUs is able to draw 8 pixel at once.

Mild agnosticism —the view that the existence or nonexistence of God or gods is currently unknown but is not necessarily unknowable, therefore one will withhold judgment until/if more evidence is available. A weak agnostic would say "I don't know, but maybe you do."

The NV3x gpus had quite a radical design and the conventional "pipeline x TMUs" definition cannot be applied to them. All of them (from the lowly FX5200 up to the FX5950) are able to pull a maximum of 4 pixels per clock. The NV30/35 have also the ability to apply two textures per pixel in a pass (thus being similar to a 4x2 design) and have twice the shader ALUs of their maistream counterparts

Because they're idiots. Most likely they just copy pasted from one of their vga charts where they also got this wrong. by DAN

TRUE !!!!!...

NV 3x truely flawed in almost all benchmarx. Then wats the point for arguin wheather its 8x1, or 4x2 or freakin YxZ.
Let it burn.. teh era is over. GET OVER IT!!! ther r a million forums /threads out ther wher people hav argued over this.. wasted thier times. Plz dont start it again!

as far as ive read "the nv3x architecture is Far oo complicated to understand"
accordin to some sites or reviews, i had read, for teh hi-end cards, its pipes is 4x2 and 8x1 both depending upon some calculations/situations ..as to wat wuld b better for having more FPS, the GPU decides while processin.. cant recollect teh exact thingy.
but there was too much HYPE abt. this bein bad.
To conclude, ITS 50% times 8x1 and 50% times 4x2.
SO one cant really determine wat it is. Ony nv officials can.